This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs: cachefiles: add support for large files in filesystem caching
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fs-cachefiles-add-support-for-large-files-in-filesystem-caching.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 55a058d4a89c4ef33294f9758559f0704d347738 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justin Lecher <jlec@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:42:53 -0700
Subject: fs: cachefiles: add support for large files in filesystem caching
From: Justin Lecher <jlec@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 98c350cda2c14a343d34ea01a3d9c24fea5ec66d upstream.
Support the caching of large files.
Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31182
Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
- Adjust context
- dentry_open() takes dentry and vfsmount pointers, not a path pointer]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ int cachefiles_write_page(struct fscache
* own time */
dget(object->backer);
mntget(cache->mnt);
- file = dentry_open(object->backer, cache->mnt, O_RDWR,
+ file = dentry_open(object->backer, cache->mnt, O_RDWR | O_LARGEFILE,
cache->cache_cred);
if (IS_ERR(file)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(file);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlec@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/fs-cachefiles-add-support-for-large-files-in-filesystem-caching.patch
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